Alex Thomson
Alastair Campbell: Egypt hasn’t paid me a penny
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor denies taking money from the Sisi regime, but insists the west must engage with Egypt.
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Calls for second Brexit referendum but can it actually happen?
Opposition to Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal is increasing.
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Mental health debate: Isabel Hardman and Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell and Isabel Hardman debate Theresa May’s announcement on mental health and the “shared society”.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
The Blair-Sisi Project
Tony Blair’s people insist he will earn no money from his advising of “President” Sisi of Egypt, who seized power in the recent coup and sealed it in a phony election.
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Gary Gibbon
Clegg rules out propping up 3rd place Brown
Nick Clegg rules out propping up Labour if the party comes third in share of the vote, while am intriguing new polling analysis from Peter Kellner suggests the Lib Dem surge would leave the Tories as the biggest party in a hung parliament.
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Brown's inquiry appearance overshadows Treasury evidence
Any real chance of today’s DfID and Treasury witnesses getting onto the news bulletins was pretty much scuppered by the news Gordon Brown would appear before the inquiry.
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Iraq inquiry: Omand fingers MI6 intelligence failure
In his explosive evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, former security and intelligence coordinator Sir David Omand fingers MI6 for failing to correctly interpret intelligence over weapons of mass destruction.
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Iraq inquiry: former mandarin proves reputation unfounded
The Iraq Inquiry blogger reports on the evidence given by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Turnbull.
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Iraq inquiry: the Campbell aftermath
Alastair Campbell would have been wise to avoid the newspaper headlines this morning, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger.
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Campbell on WMD (or lack of), the dodgy dossier and Clare Short
So there we are – the end of a pretty self-assured performance from Alastair Campbell, hardly surprising perhaps for a man accustomed to presenting an entire government. When we got to the final break of the day and Campbell nonchalantly asked the panel what they’d like to ask him about next – “What’s to go?” –…
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Gary Gibbon
Video blog: Gary Gibbon on Campbell, Brown and the first ‘titter’
Political editor Gary Gibbon reflects on Alastair Campbell’s first round of evidence at the Iraq war inquiry.
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Iraq inquiry: 'dodgy dossier' session about to begin
The Iraq Inquiry blogger watches Alastair Campbell face questions.
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Gary Gibbon
Iraq inquiry: Gary Gibbon on Campbell, Brown and the first ‘titter’
Political editor Gary Gibbon reflects on Alastair Campbell’s first round of evidence at the Iraq war inquiry.
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Campbell at the Iraq inquiry – half-way thoughts
The Iraq inquiry blogger gives his observations 90 minutes in to Alastair Campbell’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Iraq between 2001 and 2009.
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What Channel 4 News would like to ask Campbell
Finally for today a few suggestions of our own. Evidence begins at 10h00 – Gary Gibbon will be inside the Inquiry room for the main bulletin and we’ll be Live Tweeting from the press-room next door throughout.